I
stand before you today humbled and honored that you have elected me
to lead you as governor. I promise you that I will fulfill my duties
the best of my ability. I will honor my oath to uphold and defend the
state and federal constitutions.

My
first duty, however, is to our Creator. I know that He will hold me
accountable for how I govern. Now that I now preside over the executive
office of the state of Ohio, He will hold me responsible for executing
the laws of this state and protecting the God-given rights of all Ohioans
through the administration of justice. That obligation weighs heavy
on me right now for your state government has, for several decades,
failed to do its duty. We have not protected the God-given rights of
all Ohioans as God commands. The quickest way forward for Ohio is to
go back to where we made a wrong turn, and make it right. We must do
what the Bible says and “repent” – that is, to turn
from our wrongdoing and begin to do right.

Let
me be specific in my indictment. We must repent for obeying the federal
government at the expense of our allegiance to God. We must repent for
letting the federal government forbid the public proclamation of our
faith in Jesus Christ in our courthouses and public institutions. We
must repent for letting the federal government subject the church to
federal jurisdiction, contrary to the laws of God and the state and
federal constitutions. We must repent for letting the federal government
and godless educators dictate that Ohio’s children will be subject
to godless education, from their safe sex programs that promote sodomy
and fornication, to their indoctrination in atheism in the name of science.
We have grieved the Lord with what we have done to our children in the
name of education, in the name of choice, and in the name of law.

Ohio
must repent for shedding of innocent blood in our land. We deserve judgment
for what we have done, but God graciously gives us an opportunity to
quench the wrath of God that we deserve and win His mercy. Allow me
to give a brief Scriptural introduction to this concept. In Exodus 20,
the Ten Commandments insists, “Do no murder.” In the very
next chapter, the state is given the obligation to enforce this commandment
through the administration of justice. Romans 13 says that your leaders
are God’s ministers to wield the sword of justice to punish evildoers
and to protect the innocent. Numbers 35 says that a curse of innocent
blood rests upon us if we do not execute murderers. Deuteronomy 21 says
that the wrath of God for the shedding of innocent blood falls upon
the community nearest the crime.

Ohio
cannot blame the federal government for our failure to protect the God-given
rights of all Ohioans; the federal government has no right to usurp
divine law and constitutional law and legalize the killing of the innocent
within our borders. Criminal justice in Ohio is firmly within the biblical
and constitutional jurisdiction of Ohio’s leaders, and the federal
government is constitutionally limited to specifically-enumerated powers.
Thus, Ohio is responsible to protect Ohioans through the enforcement
of criminal statues in Ohio, and if we must resist federal tyrants in
order to do justice, then God obligates us to resist the federal tyrants
to do justice. He alone is Lord and to Him alone do we owe unconditional
allegiance.

Today,
your state leaders repent for allowing innocent children to be slaughtered
in Ohio’s abortion clinics, hospitals, and physicians’ office,
and we intend to prosecute, convict, and execute as soon as possible.
That’s right – life in prison is an insufficient penalty
to abate the wrath of God for the shedding of innocent blood. God’s
Word provides one remedy for quenching bloodguilt, and it is a speedy
execution. We will not make King Josiah’s mistake and ban the
child-killing without doing justice for past crimes; that only postponed
Israel’s devastating judgment. Rather, we will begin today to
prosecute those who have killed babies in the past, as well as all accomplices;
only this will secure God’s blessing and freedom for our posterity.

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Ohio
also repents for a system of justice that has capitulated to the godless
policies of the socialists in defiance to the Word of God. We have miserably
failed to efficiently protect the God-given rights of the innocent.
The taxpayers foot the bill to keep those that assault, rape, and burglarize
them warm in winter, cool in summer, to educate them, medicate them,
and provide them free legal counsel and entertainment, while the innocent
who have been assaulted, raped, and burglarized live in fear of their
assailants breaking out of prison, or being released for good behavior
or due to overcrowding. Our prisons are bursting at the seams with repeat
offenders, and our high crime rates persist. Ohio’s Correctional
Institutions consume a huge percentage of our state budget, profiting
a huge bureaucracy at the expense of the taxpaying victims. We turn
today from this failed godless system to the inexpensive and effective
system found within the word of God.

Capital
criminals will be executed quickly and publicly, with the caveats God’s
Word provides to secure against false convictions. Restitution, public
flogging, and “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth”
punishments will replace our failed system. We can rely on the promises
of God’s Word in Deuteronomy 13:11 and other passages that if
we will obey God and do justice as He instructs, crime and injustice
are coming to an end in Ohio. Those ambulance-chasers and bureaucrats
profiting off of the unjust system may now enter the private sector.

Today,
Ohio’s leaders repent for forsaking our lawful sovereignty over
constitutional matters and groveling at the feeding trough of the federal
government’s treasury instead of trusting the Lord. We will not
let the funds of the federal government, obtained through an unlawful
form of coercive taxation, manipulate us into submitting to their unlawful
mandates and godless judicial decisions. We dethrone the federal government
from its unlawful place and we submit to the King of kings and Lord
of lords.

Today,
Ohio’s leaders repent for misusing the funds obtained through
state taxation to pay for things not specifically justified in our state
constitution. We will no longer spend your money for charitable causes
to which you would not give willingly if you had the free choice. The
Bible says that all the fruit of your labor is God’s gift to you,
and we will no longer plunder your wealth to enrich ourselves and our
campaign donors. We will no longer raid the state treasury to fund projects
in our district to secure our reelections. We bind ourselves down to
the law, and will leave the free people of Ohio to care for the poor,
to provide education for their children, to promote the arts, and to
do all of the other good and important things that the state government
has done unlawfully in the past.

Ohio’s
leaders commit today to call the police and Guard forces into action
to defend Ohioans from federal tyranny. If any agent of the federal
government attempts to deprive an Ohioan of their right to life, liberty
and property, through attempting to enforce unlawful judicial decisions
on abortion, unlawful hate speech statutes, environmental statutes,
tax laws that fund abortion or unconstitutional wars, or any other federal
rule or law that violates the limitations of power established in God’s
law and in the federal and state constitutions, those agents will face
arrest and prosecution. Your state leaders intend to lay down their
own lives if necessary in order to protect the God-given rights of all
Ohioans in our jurisdiction as God and the Ohio Constitution demands.

We
also intend to help other states repent and restore their lawful, constitutional
sovereignty. The states are the masters of the federal government; the
federal government is not the master of the states. The states are the
parents of the federal government – we created this morbidly obese,
lawless child, and we must restrain it with the chains of divine law
and constitutional law, with God’s help.

I
call all Ohioans to prayer and fasting that we will not fail to obey
God fully in all things in this transition from godless government to
Christian government. Certainly, the Lord will test our faith, but if
we are faithful in wilderness, I am confident that the Lord will lead
us safely into the promised land of liberty, peace, and justice for
all.

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I
ask you now to bow your heads and your knees, and cry out to the Lord
with me in prayer. “Dear Father, we repent for turning from you
and serving idols. We repent for the injustice and the shedding of innocent
blood that we have committed in this land. We repent for our theft and
plunder of our neighbor’s wealth. Have mercy on Ohio. Help us
do justice, and build a government on your shoulders instead of erecting
it on the quicksands of humanism. Help the states around us turn back
to God and join us in resisting tyranny and returning to Your law. In
Jesus’ name we pray, amen.”

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Patrick
Johnston and his wife Elizabeth reside in Zanesville, Ohio, with their
six young home-schooled children. Patrick is a family practice physician
and founder of the Association of Pro-life Physicians, which is dedicated
to restoring a remnant of physicians in our communities who are convinced
that life begins at conception and who will not commit nor refer for abortions
(www.ProLifePhysicians.org).

He
founded the Alliance to Reform Education Funding to fight public school
levies and promote Christian home-schooling (www.StopSchoolLevies.org).
Dr. Johnston is committed to revival in the church, and the restoration
of Biblical law and constitutional government in America. Dr. Johnston
is currently campaigning for State Representative for District 94 in Ohio.
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